Fair use in the EU – sort of (ECJ Metall auf Metall/Pastiche/Sampling ruling)
It’s happened! After well over 20 years of litigation, the Metall auf Metall case still isn’t done! But it at least now has gotten another ruling. I previously talked about the Advocate General’s opinion on this case, but now the judges have judged. So let’s take a look at what they have judged. What on…
Make Art, not Content – Or: AI Slop doesn’t threaten Artists, Capitalism does
As we look around ourselves, more and more of the internet is being spammed with AI content. Human content creators are ringing the alarm bells; their livelihood is under threat, their content which they spent hours making being drowned under a sea of quick-and-easy generators of text, images and videos. Yet, as new as AI…
Muse Group: Enshittifying everything it touches
Starting in 2017, Ultimate Guitar – then a guitar tabs website developed from a Kaliningrad office – started going on a shopping spree: They acquired MuseScore, an open source notation program, Audacity, the Audacity audio editor, Hal Leonard, a sheet music publisher, StaffPad, AmpKit, and others. Today, they’re known as Muse Group, have abandoned their Russian…
Corporations are agentic AGI
There are some good arguments in favor of understanding corporations as artificial, intelligent meta-(or super-)organisms: The idea that corporations can be understood as an AI isn’t new – I got introduced to it by Charles Stross in his “Dude, you broke the future!” talk. They are slower to act than computer-based AI, but in return,…
How to balance copyright and the freedom of the arts
Copyright law is unfair and a bit silly. We can fix it to be the tool creators deserve. And now might be the time to get ready to take action.
Even the institutions are waking up to the fact that copyright law is unfair
The balance between the freedom of the arts and rewarding existing creators with exclusive rights is manifestly wrong
Getting Ollama to run properly
Today I tried to do something which apparently is silly: Use Ollama on my Windows machine to run gpt-oss:20b, use it in VSCode’s Copilot-chat, and also use it on WSL for my Linux (web) projects. This is, apparently, difficult. To document my findings instead of a “nvm fixed it”, here’s the stuff I did: That’s…
Thermite as grid-scale energy storage (and gemstone production method)
Thermite is a fancy name (actually a trademark) for a quite simple reaction: Just take some rust (iron oxide) powder and some aluminium powder, smash them together, and watch the fireworks. Or to put it into a formula: iron(III) oxide + aluminium → iron + aluminium oxideFe2O3 + 2Al → 2 Fe + Al2O3 This…
City Villages: Desirable public housing for a greener future
We are currently facing several issues: I believe that we can perhaps not fully resolve, but help all three issues with an idea I call “City Villages”. What is a City Village? A City Village is a concept to combine the benefits of a city (everything is nearby) with the benefits of a village (you…
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